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Subject: Re: New user would like some advice

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Tammy R

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Date Posted: 11:46:09 02/16/06 Thu
In reply to: sister of addict 's message, "Re: New user would like some advice" on 18:08:35 02/15/06 Wed

Thanks for the reply. My husband and I have already got guardianship against my daughters will. It has been over a year now and we have tried to help her in all the ways we could. Sad thing is, is now she has told people that we disowned her because we can no longer allow her to come to the house because of her attitude. It tears me up to do that to her but we have 3 other children plus her daughter that we are raising and I do not want them exposed to the people that she would bring to the house and also she has built such a wall between her and her sibilings that they no longer want anything to do with her. I think she has also shut herself off to us because we took the baby and after a couple of weeks being clean she thought that she should be able to get her back and we told her that it was up to the courts and was out of our hands.

This whole thing has hurt so many people in so many ways and I know my daughter is hurting but there is nothing that I feel I can do. I have written letters to her encouraging her to get help and letting her know that I love her but due to everything that had happened that she couldn't move back in with us. I also told her that she had to do this on her own because if I kept stepping in rescuing her each time she fell she would never learn to stand on her own two feet and I felt that she needed that feeling of self confidence. I wish that I could just tell her to pack her things and move back in but I know that if I did that her sisters and brother would leave and they are still in school so I can't do that to them.

I feel so bad about my relationship with my daughter because she has no one to turn to except an abusive boyfriend. We use to be really close and I miss her so much I just wish that she could see that. Tough love really is hard.

I am putting on a Meth Awareness Assembly for our schools and I hope to reach at least one person. This drug has caused so many families such pain and the word needs to be spread so people will know what it does.

Hopefully someday if she lives, my daughter will realize that none of this was done to hurt her but just to protect her daughter.

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